Rat-A-Phooey! That Ghost Ship May Not Be Infested With Rodents

The Lyubov Orlova sits derelict at dockside in Newfoundland in October 2012.

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Originally published on January 27, 2014 3:03 pm

As creepily fascinating as the story may be, the tale about a "rat-infested ghost ship" supposedly headed toward Britain may need to be filed in the too-good-to-be-true category.

Our friends at Weekend Edition caught up with the salvage hunter who had been widely quoted saying that the 300-foot cruise liner Lyubov Orlova might be filled with cannibalistic rats. The ship is thought to be drifting around the North Atlantic after snapping its towline en route to a scrapyard last year.